19 Related Articles, between 2019-06-26 and 2019-08-14

After leading vote to dissolve Knesset, PM’s looking at a redo. Is that allowed?. Legal experts say there's no going back on vote initiating snap elections; some analysts see the measure as an effort by Netanyahu to avoid blame for having orchestrated move >>

Announcing Knesset slate, Liberman vows to force unity government. Yisrael Beytenu leader says he'll only recommend for PM a politician who promises to go across the aisle; Netanyahu: A vote for him is a vote for the left >>

Ayelet Shaked must now prove her political power. Opinion: If the new head of the United Right delivers on her electability and leadership promise by bringing her party into the Knesset with sufficient negotiating power to take on Netanyahu, she will have propelled herself back into a position on the national stage >>

Begin blasts Netanyahu, 'won't vote Likud' in Israeli election. Former lawmaker and minister, son of legendary Likud leader, slams Netanyahu-backed bill to place cameras at polling stations ■ Former Likud Knesset speaker also refuses to back Likud >>

Can Netanyahu spin himself out of another election?. Analysis: While there's no apparent majority to a possible bill to cancel the September elections, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein thinks the Blue and White party should sleep on it; and who knows, perhaps the PM who has already proven that there are no limits when it comes to his political survival, has an offer they cannot refuse >>

Election quiz: How much do you know about the past week in Israeli politics?. Which TV show made Netanyahu launch an attack on the media? Why is he playing the guitar in surprising video? And which contender withdrew from the Knesset race? >>

Israel's Knesset taps Netanyahu's pick for state comptroller. Israel's parliament has voted in favor of appointing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's candidate for state comptroller, representing a minor political victory for the embattled leader. >>

Netanyahu ally: There won’t be 3rd elections if PM again fails to form coalition. Miki Zohar says Blue and White's Gantz to get a crack at assembling a government if Likud unable to do so after September polls, didn't believe Knesset would really dissolve >>

Netanyahu considers canceling Knesset elections. The Prime Minister is mulling support for Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein's attempts to revoke the law dispersing the Knesset. >>

Netanyahu followed his wife's edicts. Now he will pay the price. He could have had a restrained, downsized and loyal Ayelet Shaked on the list of top ten Likud Knesset candidates. But now she's back, and in a big way, leading a right-wing union that may have the power to dethrone him >>

Netanyahu loyalist calls for cameras at all polling stations in heated Knesset discussion. Central Elections Committee discusses legality of filming at the polls after controversy over Likud observers recording voters in Arab towns in April ballot >>

Netanyahu offered Gantz rotating premiership in bid to avert elections – report. Likud denies making last-ditch offer to form unity government with Blue and White before vote was called last month to dissolve Knesset >>

Netanyahu says he’s considering proposal to cancel September election. Knesset speaker said to concoct plan to nix new national vote, but it is unclear how PM could form a government without Blue and White, which rejects the plan as 'spin' >>

Netanyahu's party plans new campaign offensive targeting right-wing parties. The prime minister 'doesn’t think Likud, Yamina and the Haredi parties can win 61 Knesset seats,' and he is now refocusing his efforts on his own party, Likud campaign official tells Haaretz >>

Stav Shaffir quits Knesset. "I promised that I would do everything in order to switch the Netanyahu government and to save the Israeli democracy and that's what I'll do, with all my power," said Shafir. >>

Three basic scenarios for Israel’s upcoming election: Sweet Dreams, King Lieberman and Your Worst Nightmare. It takes a swing of only five Knesset seats to save Netanyahu from prosecution and undermine Israeli democracy – or vice versa >>